How to Edit FLV in Windows Movie Maker?

Convert FLV to Import and Edit FLV in Windows Movie Maker

Feb 22, 2018, Posted by Shirley White

I used OBS to record some game play and it gave me a file in .flv. When I tried to import this FLV file to Windows Movie Maker for further edit, it did not work. It seems like something about a codec problem. What shall I do?

As a quite popular and widely-used video file, FLV is accepted by most video players, editors and devices. However, the situation of importing FLV to Windows Movie Maker is complicated. FLV is absolutely unsupported in the Windows Vista and Windows XP editions of Movie Maker and totally supported with the installation of the necessary codecs in the windows 7 or later editions of Movie Maker.

In a word, to edit FLV in Windows Movie Maker, you have to convert FLV to Windows Movie Maker supported formats if you are using Windows XP or Windows Vista, or install some third-part codec if your OS is Windows 7 or later. Here comes another problem - what if you don't want to install such codecs?

A Permanent Solution

Converting FLV to Windows Movie Maker more compatible formats is permanent solution. After the conversion, you can directly import FLV to Windows Movie Maker for edit and publish. To convert FLV to Windows Movie Maker, you need a video converter and one of the best options is Faasoft FLV to Windows Movie Maker Converter (for Mac, for Windows), which will surprise you in many ways:

Convert FLV to Windows Movie Maker

The three steps below mainly show you how to convert FLV to Windows Movie Maker with this program. Now, get the trial version of Faasoft FLV to Windows Movie Maker Converter by clicking "Free Download" button and then have a try as the steps.

Run this FLV to Windows Movie Maker Converter on your computer. And now, just drag the unsupported FLV file to the application main window and you'll see the added FLV file displaying in the task list.

Tips: If it is necessary to make some settings for the output format like adjust frame rate, bitrate, resolution and other parameters, hit "Settings..." button and turn to "Advanced Settings" after you choose the output format.

Step 3 Convert

Now everything is ready. Just hit the big "Convert" button on the right bottom of the program to activate the conversion from FLV to Windows Movie Maker. The conversion will be finished very fast.

Tips for Windows Movie Maker

Although Windows Movie Maker was officially discontinued in January 10, 2017, still a lot of people are using it. For those people's convenience, the following is the form with details of the input and output formats of Windows Movie Maker.